[5] Hubback was a teacher until her first child was born;[2] she had faced discrimination while applying for teaching posts as a married woman[5] and was frustrated that she could not learn details of her husband's work because, as a civil servant, he was required to keep it confidential.
[6] In the words of the historian Helen McCarthy, Hubback was one of a number of researchers in the 1950s (such as Viola Klein, Pearl Jephcott, Ferdynand Zweig, Nancy Seear and Hannah Gavron) who "helped to entrench new understandings of married women’s employment as a fundamental feature of advanced industrial societies, and one that solved the dilemmas of ‘modern’ woman across social classes.
"[8] She reported the frustrations of highly qualified women who felt constrained to stop working once they married or to care for their children; she concluded that women who sacrificed themselves and their capacity for self-actualisation to become full-time mothers and wives instead were "often too self-sacrificing in the sense that they let themselves drift into a state of mind in which their daily lives gradually destroy them as individuals".
"[6] She visited Robert Hobson,[1] a Jungian psychoanalyst, and became sufficiently interested in the subject that she qualified with the Society of Analytical Psychology in 1964.
Before that she somewhat questionably worked as a counselor at University College, London before she was qualified, thanks to her friendship with Arnold Linken, the South African immigrant medical director.
[6] Hubback was a contributor to a BBC programme "The Meaning of Dreams", presented by comedian and naturalist Bill Oddie.